Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitar.
William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
Giovanni Battista Locatelli takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini.
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Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'île de Merlin
Michael Haydn – Symphony No. 1 in C major
February 7 – Benedikt Schack, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826)
August 25 – Franz Teyber, composer
September 25
Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1841)
Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, pianist and composer
October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
December 11 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer (died 1832)
December 31 – Sophie Hagman, ballerina (d. 1826)
Date unknown – Glafira Alymova, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
January 28 – Johann Paul Schiffelholz, composer for the mandora (born 1685)
March 22 – Richard Leveridge, opera singer (born 1670)
April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
April 30 – François d'Agincourt, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684)
June – John Travers, organist and composer (born 1703)
October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690)
November 20 – Johan Helmich Roman, composer (born 1694)
November 27 – Senesino, castrato singer (born 1686)
December 5 – Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer (born 1688)
probable – Sanctus Seraphin, violin-maker (born 1699)
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